HOBOKEN -- Police are investigating the robbery of a 35-year-old Jersey City man who was badly beaten with a wooden bat in Hoboken early Monday
morning, reports said.

Police
were called to Fifth and Monroe streets at 3:40 a.m. Monday on the report of an assault. With the help of a witness, cops found the assault victim at Monroe and Newark streets after he drove away from the scene of the attack, reports said.

The
driver, who was sweating and disorientated as if he had concussion, had blood on his clothes, cuts on his arms and head, and large bump
underneath his left eye, reports said.

After initially saying "nothing happened," he later admitted he was beaten
about the head with a wooden bat by two men who he says stole his cell phone and $150
in cash, reports said.

The
victim said that he knew the men and told police that they had driven away
in a green Range Rover, which police then stopped at
Monroe and Fourth streets, police said.

But when
the cops asked the victim to identify the driver and his passenger of the Range Rover, he stopped cooperating saying.

The victim
was treated at the Hoboken University Medical Center, reports said. The two
suspects were released pending further investigation.